Frozen local lough.

Our local lough has been frozen recently and we decided that we’d walk the length of it, in the middle, as the ice was more than 4" thick. We spread out, 15 yards apart, each of us carrying a large coil of warp; it took us over an hour to reach the end, visiting Garrett Island on the way.

People walking and skating on the ice.

Lough from overlooking hill.

The Frenchman’s Garden viewed from the lough. (Not normally photographed from this position!)

No, that's not me. Just some guy who came skating up to me in the middle of the lake and I asked him where he got his skates from as there are no skating rinks around here, Said they'd been in house since 1904 and were only used every 30 or 40 years or so. They must have had colder winters in the early 1900s.